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Meanings of fastidious in English
Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures.
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Usage of fastidious in English
1
Public arbitration would also facilitate fastidious record-keeping that would support additional reforms.
2
She became fastidious about her personal appearance and exclusive in her friendships.
3
This to his proud and fastidious nature was humiliating in the extreme.
4
But of course it is natural for aristocratic minds to be fastidious.
5
It had always been easy enough, too easy for his fastidious taste.
6
They were fastidious in dress, while he had inclined to the slovenly.
7
The Jawas were far more fastidious about their possessions than their hygiene.
8
She was fastidious, but shrank from nothing that needed to be done.
9
In 1698 prosperity and security had made men querulous, fastidious and unmanageable.
10
Whether a fastidious housekeeper would have found everything in order is doubtful.
11
All comers, even the most fastidious, found it the pleasantest of residences.
12
The fastidious old lawyer ceased speaking and gave a sort of shudder.
13
Those worthies had much of fastidious remark to make against the plan.
14
Examined up close, it was words, in that furious, fastidious purple ink.
15
But there were others of the crew not so fastidious as myself.
16
It's not only that they are critical and fastidious; they are weak-handed.
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Fastidious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common